1/Does your ability to remember temporal lobe anatomy seem, well, temporary?

Or are you feeling temporally challenged when it comes to this complex region?

Here’s a thread to help you remember the structures of the temporal lobe!

2/Temporal lobe can be divided centrally & peripherally.

Centrally is the hippocampus.

It’s a very old part of the brain & is relatively well preserved going all the way back to rats.

Its main function is memory—getting both rats & us through mazes—including the maze of life

3/Peripherally is the neocortex.

Although rats also have neocortex, theirs is much different structurally than humans.

So I like to think of neocortex as providing the newer (neo) functions of the temporal lobes seen in humans: speech, language, visual processing/social cues

🚨What happens to tropical rainforests as CO₂ rises?

New research shows higher CO₂ boosts tree growth & C uptake by pushing roots to aggressively mine scarce phosphorus.

This strengthens the C sink now, but depletes nutrients, ultimately limiting long-term C storage.🧵1/11

2/ Scientists tested this in the Amazon by exposing forest patches to higher CO₂ (future-like conditions) and tracking how trees, roots, and soils responded over time.

3/ Step 1: More CO₂ → faster photosynthesis

Trees produce more sugars, grow faster, and pull more CO₂ out of the air.

This is the short-term “carbon sink boost.”

Two paths to governance-bearing tokenized stocks launched the same week.

@Computershare ISTs: the token IS the registered share.
@OndoFinance + @Broadridge: the token wraps a beneficial interest, proxy voting bolted on.

@steinRWA called it "game over." It isn't. 🧵

Path 1 - native distributed. @Computershare acts as transfer agent. IST holders are registered shareholders on the issuer's books. Voting, dividends, corporate actions flow directly.

No SPV. No custodian holding the real shares. Token = share.

Path 2 - custodial wrapper + proxy bridge. @OndoFinance holds underlying shares through a BVI SPV via @AlpacaHQ. Token holders get beneficial exposure. @Broadridge provides the proxy voting pipe.

Token = contractual claim. Voting = pass-through courtesy.

We hear the songs all the time. But do we ever hear how they came alive?

A thread 🧵- for the recording process of some greatest hits in music

1- Dire Straits - Money for Nothing

Mark Knopfler telling the story of how Money for Nothing was written, at British TV show Parkinson. That's quite an interesting story.

2- Metallica - The Black Album Recordings James Hetfield recording his vocals for the band's most successful album.

3- Bee Gees - Tragedy

Bee Gees recording their number 1 hit 'Tragedy' in 1978 during the make up process of their album called Spirits Having Flown.

Introducing Silico: the platform for building AI models with the precision of written software.

Silico lets researchers and engineers see inside their models, debug failures, and intentionally design them from the ground up.

Early access is open now. 🧵(1/10)

We’ve used interpretability to discover a novel class of Alzheimer’s biomarkers, teach a language model to correct its own hallucinations, and diagnose performance bottlenecks in a robotics model.

Silico brings those frontier techniques to everyone. (2/10)

Silico introduces our model neuroscientist: an autonomous agent that plans and runs concurrent experiments on your model.

It works with your team in our model design environment, where you can organize research threads, replicate and extend papers, and collaborate on findings.

Here are 5 things you can do with Silico:
(3/10)

THREADETTE: SCOTUS's decision yesterday in Callais case striking down Louisiana's unconstitutional race-based districts prompted voters who brought challenge to immediately file an application asking Court to rush case back to district court so the districts could be redrawn. 1/

2/ The losers who want to continue to discriminate based on race in district mapping oppose sending case back to district court on expedited basis. And Alito ordered them to respond by 4 p.m. Fact that pro-discrimination side wants to delay case with midterms around corner makes

3/ me wonder, given @MZHemingway reporting in Alito, that Leftist justices dragged feet in Dobbs, holding up opinion by delaying dissent and THEN unnecessarily citing another SCOTUS decision that had not yet been released, whether the Leftist justices did the same here BUT

This fancy dog breed looks like it might belong at a Disney ball.

However, it was bred as as indestructible retriever and routinely ranks as one of the smartest dog breed on our planet.

It's the Standard Poodle!

Let's learn some more!

🧵

Where did this dog breed come from?

DNA says ancient Asia, but it really got it's feet wet in ancient Germany, then refined further in France, particularly among nobility who loved the look and the utility of it retrieving stuff from water.

Their curly, dense coat provided insulation against the cold water, and their natural swimming ability made them excellent water retrievers.

Over time, they also became popular as circus performers due to their intelligence and trainability.

This is the third tweet thread from Day 1 of Graham Linehan's appeal against his conviction for the criminal damage of a mobile phone. The start of the first thread is here... they're all linked.

https://x.com/nickwallis/status/2049783278563905852?s=20

[we are still looking at damage on phone]
FW when was this damage caused?
SB it was caused after GL had thrown it
FW what condition was your phone in before that event
SB "basically immaculate"
FW how did you know that?

SB because I'd changed the case earlier that day, twice.
[FW takes him to the bundle]

ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggests the SCOTUS ruling barring using race to draw congressional districts is "a step backwards" and about keeping black people from voting. She claims soon women won't be able to vote either:

"You know, this decision, we knew this was coming because they've been chipping away at this for a long time. The courts said, you know, there's no problem with race anymore and yet we're fighting every day talking about Project 2025.

We are seeing -- we know what's happening and it's happening -- it's going to start happening to women as well, because all these changes in voting where they're saying you can't use your married name, you got to go your birth certificate, so this is -- this is going to affect a lot of people.

Right now, it sounds like it's just affecting people of color. We know better. We knew this was coming, so this is meant to discourage you from voting. This is meant to make you feel like you don't have a voice. You do have a voice. Do not forget that.

But do you see it as a step backwards also?"

Using incendiary rhetoric that could endanger Justice Alito's life, Sunny Hostin claims he's trying to take away the rights of black people and women. She claims her kids now have fewer civil rights than her:

SUNNY HOSTIN: I think it's a huge step back. I mean the 1965 Voting Rights Act was the most important piece of legislation in United States history.

GOLDBERG: People died for that.

HOSTIN: Yes, actually Justice Kagan in her 48-page dissent said that it was the most important piece because it was borne of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers.

GOLDBERG: Yeah.

HOSTIN: She wrote that. And it has been gutted. People are saying, well, it hasn't really been gutted. It has been, and that is because the majority opinion was written by Samuel Alito, the same judge that wrote the decision that took away a lot of women's rights.

GOLDBERG: Uh-huh.

HOSTIN: Two key points, states can no longer use race as a factor in redistricting but states can use party politics, they can use party politics in redistricting.

JOY BEHAR: What does that mean?

HOSTIN: Meaning --

SARA HAINES: Draw the line based on Republican, Democrat --

HOSTIN: You can draw the line based on Republican and Democrat.

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's okay to discriminate in that that case.

HOSTIN: It's okay to discriminate there.

Number two, the Voting Rights Act only protects against intentional discrimination. The problem with that is, I don't know about you but there aren't that many racists that say, 'hi, I'm a racist.' There aren't that many legislators that write in legislation, we are going to discriminate against black people. So, it's almost impossible to prove intentional discrimination. And that is why in my view this is gutted.

What is most troubling to me and I think you'll -- you and I, Whoopi, have discussed this, Alito argued that the vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the south indicating that racism no longer exists in this country.

I can tell you as a black woman that my father was born in 1949. He remembers segregated schools. He remembers second get grated water fountains, he remember that's couldn't -- that he did not have full civil rights. And he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights, and he is still alive today, and I am still alive today and I have been discriminated against. And now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.

BEHAR: That's true.

HOSTIN: That is disgusting, despicable and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision even though, Whoopi, we did know this was coming.

The View suggest Justice Clarence Thomas is a race traitor.
Liberal white woman Joy Behar, who once said Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) didn't know what it was like to be black in America, sparks the hate against the Justice:

BEHAR: Wait a second. What about Clarence Thomas? Didn't he stick up for his own?

GOLDBERG: No, he didn't. No.

HOSTIN: No, he did not. He is part of the majority here.

GOLDBERG: yeah.

Yelizarov, founder of drone battalion that destroyed $14B worth of Russian equipment: Risk of tactical nuclear use is real. Partners must define a response in advance.

If Ukraine raises efficiency and enemy losses, it could demoralize Russia and enable a counteroffensive.

1/

Yelizarov: Russia faces manpower shortages. Ukraine could inflict more losses, but targets are limited.

Current Russian losses are about 30–35k per month. If Russia pushes harder, losses rise; if it slows down, they stay around that level.

2/

Yelizarov: Ukraine lost drone advantage. In 2022–23 we stopped Russia and stabilized the front, but didn’t retake territory.

With faster adaptation, we could have. That window is gone.

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1/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it.
His dog Anya, already bleeding, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live.

That same man, Essa Suleiman stabbed two people yesterday in a terror attack in Golders Green.

Here’s what happened next. 🧵

2/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it – four to the back of the head, one through the lip, two in the leg. His dog Anya, already bleeding herself, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live.

3/ The man was Essa Suleiman. He also stabbed PC Michael Mansell. Anya took a stab wound to the chest. She survived. She got the PDSA Gold Medal in 2010 for saving PC Sampson’s life. 😭

Apolitical Russians are starting to feel the war.

Influencer Victoria Bonya[13m followers] urged Putin to “face the truth”: floods in Dagestan, oil spills on the Black Sea coast, internet blackouts and cattle culls in Siberia.

Five days later: 30 million views, The Economist.1/

Bonya is not an opposition politician or activist. She lives near Monaco and sells vegan cosmetics and clothing.

But she addressed Putin: "People are afraid of you, bloggers are afraid, artists are afraid, governors are afraid. But people should not be afraid of their president. I am not afraid." 2/

Her video is not a call to revolutio, but the reaction to it is more telling than its content. Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party, told deputies that the video should be taken seriously if the Kremlin wants to avoid another Bolshevik revolution. 3/